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at the base ; offsets of the calyx-leafits remarkably short and 
broad; petals white with red blotches; leaves somewhat 
concave. Highlands, Mr. W. Borrer. 
» Receptacle elliptical, attenuated at each end; peduncle longer 
than the bractez ; aculei falcate ; leaflets narrower than in 
æ, with a few hairs above, hairy and glandular beneath like the 
variety 7. ‘This seems to have some affinity with R. micrantha, 
but in a different way. ‘The principal peculiarities are in the 
long peduncles, in the aculei, which, though never uncinate 
as in R. micrantha, are yet more constantly curved than in 
most of the preceding varieties of R. tomentosa, and in the 
narrow leaflets. It sometimes approaches in scent to R. Eglan- 
teria; and the first time I gathered it in this state I did not 
doubt that I had found the American sweet-briar, R. suaveo- 
lens of Rees’s Cyclopedia. The upper surface of the leaves is 
sometimes almost smooth, at others quite soft and downy ; 
both sides are occasionally densely pubescent. Near Hen- 
field in Sussex, Mr. W. Borrer. Kent, Surrey, and Middlesex. 
£. differs from » only in the want of glands on the under surface 
of the leaves, excepting occasionally onthe nerve. Like that 
` variety it is sometimes almost smooth, sometimes densely pu- 
bescent. Near Durham, Mr. Robertson. Lancashire, West- 
moreland, and Middlesex. 
o, incana. Receptacle elliptical, smooth; dali ien bts co 
without glands; peduncle with only a. few hairs; aculei fal- 
cate ; young shoots purple-gray ; leaflets narrower than in a, 
with a hoary pubescence, without glands ; but the colour is 
less striking than that of the variety z. Stipule also downy 
and without glands. Sent from Scotland by Mr. G. Don to 
2D2 TT Mr. 
